Gregg Bendian

The ProgCast With Gregg Bendian

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The ProgCast With Gregg BendianProgressive music and thought in all its formsI'm drummer/composer/producer/educator Gregg Bendian, host of The ProgCast. Over the last nine years I've interviewed over 100 of America's most innovative musicians for the Yale Oral History of American Music. I'm expanding my focus to include a podcast where I can converse freely with progressive music's most fascinating and accomplished figures.

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Kerr Minnear of Gentle Giant: 50 years of INTERVIEW - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 14.06.2026 1:35:10

KERRY MINNEAR of GENTLE GIANT joins me and Adam Minkoff (Graham Nash Band) to celebrate GG;s 1976 masterpiece, INTERVIEW. We actually had the pleasure of listening to the entire album with Kerry and then discussing piece by piece. Lots of cool revelations about Giant making this classic album, only on The ProgCast! PROGCAST PATRONS get bonus episodes https://www.patreon.com/theprogcast Study Drums...

The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian - Song in a Second: King Crimson 02.06.2026 16:42

Song in a Second: King Crimson

John Etheridge of Soft Machine - The ProgCast With Gregg Bendian 20.05.2026 2:09:16

John Etheridge of Soft Machine

Composers & Composition In My Life - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 19.05.2026 1:53:23

Composers & Composition In My Life

Chris Opperman - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 19.05.2026 1:14:29

Chris Opperman

Meshuggah's Mårten Hagström - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 30.11.2025 3:09:18

Meshuggah's Mårten Hagström (composer/guitarist/lyricist/conceptualist) takes a rare few hours to hang out and open up about some rather detailed, less than typical topics - especially when it comes to rhythm, composition, and conceptualism exhibited in the music of the mighty Meshuggah. And yes, we also geek on Rush, Sci-Fi, and Clive Barker. Only on The ProgCast, folks! PROGCAST PATRONS get...

Paul Bielatowicz - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 06.10.2025 53:56

PAUL BIELATOWICZ is a composer and master guitarist from England. For the last 20 or so years he has been the featured guitarist in all of drummer CARL PALMER'S projects, with Paul miraculously nailing all of KEITH EMERSON'S keyboard parts on midi-guitar. Paul and I are about to head out on tour performing his NOSFERATU LIVE soundtrack to the original 1921 silent film. We talk about that p...

Per Nilsson - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendain 21.09.2025 59:34

PER NILSSON is an incredible guitarist and producer from Sweden, whom I've had the pleasure of hearing on several occasions with Meshuggah, when he covered during Fredrik Thordendal's hiatus from the band. Per a founding member of Scar Symmetry and the guitarist for prog rock band Kaipa, and power metal band Nocturnal Rites. PROGCAST PATRONS get bonus episodes / theprogcast Study Drums/Composition...

John Weather of Gentle Giant - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 07.09.2025 1:37:58

My longtime drum pal, JOHN "PUGWASH" WEATHERS is back on The ProgCast! It's always fun and revelatory to chat with JP and this time around we get into John's life before, during and after GENTLE GIANT. Lots of drummer talk as we delve into John's work with MAN, EYES OF BLUE, GRAHAM BOND, THE GREASE BAND and of course, GIANT. Only here, on The ProgCast! PROGCAST PATRONS get bo...

Tony Levin - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 24.08.2025 1:14:57

TONY LEVIN is well-known to The ProgCast audience as bassist for KING CRIMSON, PETER GABRIEL, STICK MEN, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, and so many more. We talk about Tony's early days as a classical player and his transition to bass guitar/stick. Tony regales us with tales of his time with Buddy Rich, Peter Gabriel, forming the KC "Discipline" band, and even playing under Igor Stravins...

Derek Shulman of Gentle Giant - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 30.07.2025 1:05:22

Derek Shulman of Gentle Giant

Payton MacDonald - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 24.07.2025 48:55

Payton MacDonald

Todd Rundgren: Appreciation of Unpredictability - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 19.05.2025 51:11

Todd Rundgren: Appreciation of Unpredictability

David Sancious - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 19.05.2025 56:40

David Sancious

Mike Beck of Happy the Man - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 30.03.2025 1:20:44

Mike Beck of Happy the Man

Anil Prasad - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian 16.03.2025 1:06:56

Anil Prasad - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian